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Surfac Preview images as a slide show

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We are trying to use the "slide show" feature of the deployment into the launcher but the slide show plays with zoomed in versions of the images and pans across them slowly (trying to be fancy i suppose).

This looks terrible and really effects how our designers are going about their work, can you turn off that zoomed in and panning play mode of the slide shows in the launcher and just tell it to play them one at a time?

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However, according to the "Setting the Application Preview Image" topic, you can use the <Preview><PreviewImageFile>Filename.png</PreviewImageFile></Preview> tag to contain a single image - either static or animated.

Could you "animate" your slideshow, so that the only animation was flipping between the various static images? Admitadly, it's a bit more work than just modifying something in the XAML, but concievably could be done.

Hi Kevin, what we ended up doing was using Microsoft Movie maker to create a WMV file out of those files, which turned out to be quite simple to do, and then it was just a quick change to the XML file.